Supreme Court puts abortion pill ruling on hold for now
Limits on how late into a pregnancy the drug can be taken, who can prescribe it and how it can be dispensed were set to take effect Saturday at 1 a.m.
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Limits on how late into a pregnancy the drug can be taken, who can prescribe it and how it can be dispensed were set to take effect Saturday at 1 a.m.
Florida is the latest example of how quickly and dramatically state laws are changing in the wake of last year's Supreme Court decision striking down Roe v. Wade.
Under the law, anyone performing an abortion after six weeks of pregnancy could be charged with a third-degree felony.
The Justice Department is asking an appeals court to pause a judge's ruling halting FDA approval of a widely used abortion pill. Conflicting rulings have caused confusion over the pill's future in the U.S., especially in states that have introduced new abortion restrictions following the fall of Roe v. Wade. Leah Litman, a professor of law at the University of Michigan, joined with more.
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California secured about two million pills, while Massachusetts purchased about 15,000.
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